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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

10,000 Birds

In the case of the acuri, the birds usually eat those kernels that have already fallen to the ground or that have been ruminated by cattle or wild animals, but they eat bocaiuva nuts straight off the bunches hanging from the trees. These macaws nest in existing holes in trees.

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Some Good News In NJ Farm Animals Case

Critter News

The court upheld regulations permitting pig and calf confinement, the transport of ill and injured cattle, and force molting of birds. Department of Agriculture (NJDA) was ordered to readdress a number of its mandated standards for farmed animal treatment.

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On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us

Animal Person

Bea directed me to an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others.

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Stray thoughts on customer experience trends

Sales and Marketing Management

In this case, they’re like the cattle that couldn’t be brought back into the herd before the gates closed on the corral. Companies that have regular run-ins with frontline employees are likely suffering from a poorly defined customer experience strategy or a poorly executed strategy. Either way, the strategy needs attention.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6 But maybe that is actually a good thing. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. Now comes my question: Which of the two categories described do you think this paper belongs to?

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. Perhaps in order to qualify for a moral elite one should become a heroic vegetarian like Peter Singer.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Wastefulness of Meat-Eating

Animal Ethics

It seems, generally speaking, that the foods which are the costliest in suffering are also the costliest in price, whereas the wholesome and harmless diet to which Nature points us is at once the cheapest and most humane.

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